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Down syndrome

Genetic expert Diana Bianchi misrepresents new eugenic test for Down syndrome

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    This week the Harvard Gazette published an article on the “new test for Down syndrome”. It contained the usual offensive language about our community. It contains the usual misleading information about screening. It introduces a new Trojan horse of a “future treatment” t
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End discrimination against unborn disabled children says UK inquiry

The report from the Commissioners of the UK Parliamentary Inquiry into Abortion on the Grounds of Disability has been released today. It is a momentous and historic moment in our journey to social justice for our community. In the accompanying press release, the Commission of Inquiry
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Street’s euthanasia bill a grave threat to our community

New Zealand Labour Party MP Maryan Street has a private members bill for euthanasia sitting in the ballot box in Parliament. If this bill is drawn and subsequently made law, it paves the way for the un-consented killing of people with Down syndrome in New Zealand. Such a situation is
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Antenatal screening, disability rights and the CRPD

Disability-selective antenatal screening programmes have been attracting the attention of disability advocates worldwide. And rightly so, as we witness on a global scale programmes that target the Down syndrome community for birth prevention. These programmes reinforce attitudes of di
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Aren’t We the Clever Ones?

Callow academics defend introduction of Neo-Nazi language. Todays guest post is by Rita Joseph. Rita is a Canberra-based writer and lecturer. For more than three decades she has been researching, writing and lecturing on the philosophy of the language of human rights. A veteran human
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Bioethicists ask: How we can best promote infanticide?

The fallout from the Otago University Bioethics paper on screening for Down syndrome continues in a new paper “Bioethics and the New Media” by Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva, the same authors of a paper last year supporting infanticide for Down syndrome. This time Giubilini a
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Complaint lodged with the Human Rights Commission over eugenics paper

Complaint lodged with the Human Rights Commission over eugenics paper Saving Downs has lodged a complaint with the Human Rights Commission over views expressed in the recent publication of a paper in the New Zealand Medical Journal that promotes eugenics against the Down syndrome comm
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PRESS RELEASE: Otago University Bioethics Director must resign following discriminatory paper on Down syndrome

Otago University Bioethics Director must resign following discriminatory paper on Down syndrome Saving Downs demands the resignation of Otago University’s Director of Bioethics following the publishing last week of a highly offensive and discriminatory paper about prenatal testing for
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PRESS RELEASE: Important win secured with revised screening guidelines

Important win secured with revised screening guidelines Saving Downs has secured a number of important and welcome changes to the national screening programme for Down syndrome. Last week new guidelines were formally issued by the National Screening Unit. These were revised following
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Saving Downs secures important win with revised screening guidelines

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Last week new guidelines for screening for Down syndrome in New Zealand were formally issued by the National Screening Unit. These consist of a leaflet for pregnant women and their partners and detailed guidelines for Health Practitioners. These have both been revised following the up
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